Word: hofer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Next Captain Anderson found a stoutish, red-faced, blond-haired man named Walter Andreas Hofer. He is a former art dealer who for the last eight years has done all of Göring's buying. He identified the pictures, and told how most of the collection was acquired...
...Hofer maintained stoutly that everything was destined for museums and for the benefit of the German people, and that everything was legally acquired. The story does not stand up. For. one thing, in some photograph albums of Göring's various homes, notably Karinhall near Berlin, you will see most of the paintings hung on Goring's very private walls. For another thing, Hofer's own story makes it clear that, despite all sorts of legalistic shenanigans, it was generally the pressure of Göring's name and station that finally closed the deal...
...German master, was a Göring favorite, and he had some beauties-about 50 in all. He had a lovely Venus by Cranach, a Madonna with Child and John the Baptist, and a haunting portrait of Prince Moritz of Saxony as a boy. "It is a curious thing," Hofer added, "but that portrait has great similarity to little Edda, Göring's daughter...
Gauleiter Franz Hofer of Tirol was brushed by the wings of victory. "You must stand faithfully and unflinchingly before, behind and beside the Führer," he told the Hitler Maidens. "Victory is nearer than you think...
Assistant Dean Philip Hofer, who conducted the negotiations, stated in a recent letter: "We are selfishly anxious to have the closer association and the greater news coverage which such an arrangement might afford us." The Crimson, for its part, salutes the Business School for its early and total conversion to the job of forging victory, and greets its newest group of readers...